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Cultural Property and Other Criminal Networks

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Cancuén Ballcourt Marker

Classic Maya stone sculpture from the site of Cancuén, Guatemala; looted in 2001 and recovered in 2003. Note: the piece was sometimes referred to as an ‘altar’ in the press.

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Media Investigations

Some of the most informative studies of the traffic in cultural objects have been conducted by investigative media.

Workers Moving Altar 1, Piedras Negras (1931) Photo by Linton Satterthwaite, Penn Museum image 15658

Piedras Negras

 During the 1960s a number of archaeologically recorded monuments were looted from the Classic Maya site in Guatemala’s Peten region and trafficked into the United States.

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